Satya Nadella: DeepSeek is the new bar for Microsoft’s AI success
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Summary
The town hall meeting discussed DeepSeek’s R1 deployed on Azure and the firm’s $ 80bn investment in AI, answering employees’ questions about its impact on carbon-free goals.
Microsoft’s own AI work, and not just OpenAI’s, is needed to enhance its position, says Nadella, following the poor performance of its Copilot AI.
$ 80bn has been invested in data centres to power AI workloads, with Nadella keen to position the company to “every workload going forward will look like ChatGPT”.
The carbon-free goal seems doomed to failure, with the AI push having a massive impact on the company’s green energy efforts, but Smith is optimistic Microsoft will still achieve it.